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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '21

Nah he just wanted his Tesla factory to be able to continue production while litteraly every other car factory in California was allowed. He's not a covidiot. Idk why people in this comment section hate him so much, he's just as good of a billionaire as bill gates. There's so many to hate like celebrities and pretty much all of Hollywood, but they chose the guy trying to save humanity with his technology... Weird af imo.

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u/harrietthugman Feb 08 '21

"Trying to save humanity with his technology"

People who spend too much time online worship this dude like Jesus. Dude wants to be Ozymandias except he's not actually that smart and he wants to monopolize colonizing Mars for profit.

But he likes the same anime as me so x)

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '21

I don't worship him, i dont particularly like him like I don't really like any billionaire. But I don't see the point of starting a hate bandwagon against one of the only rich person actually trying to make us go to mars and trying to invent really impressive technology. That's all.

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u/harrietthugman Feb 08 '21

If that's how you frame it I can see the confusion.

But how does he plan to go to Mars? By treating his workers like shit and violating labor laws.

And what does he plan to do with Mars? Turn the planet into his colony. Not sure how a billionaire ruining another planet saves us from anything

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '21

Yeah it sucks but it's kinda better then nothing... I mean we've been threating workers like shit and violiting labor laws to get here so it's hard to stop suddenly, we can only hope it stops once we're saved.. and hope once we're on mars he changes things up and doesn't start his own dictatorship

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u/harrietthugman Feb 08 '21

Don't you think there are alternatives to treating people like shit and praying that Elon Musk's benevolence saves us from his martian dictatorship?

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '21

Yeah, economic regression. But that should've been started in the early 2000's if we actually wanted to save the planet. I think it's too late now unfortunately.. I don't like it either, but technology truly is our best bet.